RackedWire: Equinox Goes Dry, Forever 21 Copycatting Again

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GRAMERCY—We've got no clue as to what a "hotel-inspired experience" means in regards to showering (mini bottles of product?), but in pursuit of that the showers at Equinox on Broadway and 19th Street will be turned off intermittently in June. So find somewhere else to cruise for a few days, won't you? [RackedWire]

UNION SQUARE—It's common knowledge that Forever 21 turns a profit by ripping off designers, but have they taken to stealing ideas from indie artists as well? Blog Outtakes notes that their current window display bears a resemblance to "'How to be Fashionable or Consume Like Me,' the 2003 pamphlet by Andrew Coulter Enright." Obscure. Click over there to compare the two. [Outtakes]